Commission to Study Holocaust Denial

Published 7:00 pm, Sunday, February 10, 2002

A commission of research historians will study the phenomenon of Holocaust denial among academics and students at a university in the southern French city of Lyon, the Education Ministry announced Monday.

The commission was conceived by Education Minister Jack Lang, who last year proposed examining academic support for revisionism at Jean Moulin University, or Lyon III.

Student associations at Lyon III have long complained that professors approved student research that calls into question the scope of the Nazi extermination of Jews during World War II.

The commission is headed by French historian Henry Rousso, director of the National Center for Scientific Research.